Month: December 2017

This week Matika Wilbur talks about Project 562, her mission to photograph over 562 federally recognized Native American tribes in The United States. Traveling from state to state in her RV, Wilbur is creating an unprecedented body of images and oral history of Native Americans.

Matika Wilbur is a photographer from the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington. She has been been traveling and photographing for project 565 for the past 5 years.She has visited members of over 300 sovereign nations throughout 40 states.

This week we get down to business with lawyer Mickey H. Osterreicher and talk contracts, copyrights, and other legalities.

Mickey H. Osterreicher is the General Counsel at the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), as well as an award winning photojournalist with almost 40 years experience. He is experienced in contract, media, copyright and first amendment law. He was also involved with the drafting of the Fair Trial/Free Press and Cameras in the courtroom section of the New York State Bar Association Journalist Handbook.